Blade Runner 2049 Review

[Firefly]

NO SPOILERS

Now that I've had time to process it....go see it on the biggest screen you can find.
Go with somebody you actually like.

There is so much to cover. But I can't. This movie not only complements the original but adds so much to it. Forget all the lame sequels and prequels. Forget Alien Covenant.

GO IN BLIND.

I will say that you should
-Watch Blade Runner Final Cut
-Watch the Blade Runner 2022 anime on YouTube

before watching this one.

What I can tell you is for near three hours I was in a dystopian cyberpunk world that was both familiar and yet unsettling in its familiarity.

A living, moving skeumorph of a film that may be lost on younger folk in some cases and yet decidedly fresh.

The cyberpunk bar has been raised pretty high.

Philip K. Dick was an acid popping visionary and yet...I am sure he would be happy with the outcome.

Anyone who saw Serial Experiment Lain might sorta understamd but this takes it further.

Just see it before some asshole ruins it.

[SteyrAUG]

I'll probably see it, just because the original was so groundbreaking.

Lacking the influence of Runme Shaw and Shaw studios I'm concerned it will seem a bit off to me. I worry about the anime influence as it usually makes for a more cartoonish film and not in a good way and I also worry there will never be anyone as hot as Sean Young in the original. A lot of it was in the eyes and reflections rather than CGI effects.

But I'll see it if for no other reason than out of respect for the original.

[Firefly]

This isn't like an anime. This is not tge Ghost in the Shell abortion. It just helps if you see the little anime short.

This is like Blade Runner but in the future of Blade Runner.

This is just a deep movie. Nothing cartoon about it. A real navel gazer.

But I simply cannot expound further beyond even if you just saw Blade Runner once on late night TV and thought "eh wasnt bad" that this shit will blow your damn mind.

[sundance435]

Can't wait to see it. Just watched the original on ScyFy twice in a row last night (I don't think it was the final cut, which I've seen before). Rutger Hauer's ad-libbed soliloquy, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe," (Tears in the Rain) is one of my all-time favorite pieces of movie prose - crazy to think he ad-libbed it.

[duece71]

I can’t wait to see it, the anticipation has been huge. I need to watch the BR 2022 anime piece.

[Outlander Systems]

Just saw it.

Holy ****. Cerebral and visceral. The soundtrack alone should have been included in the cast.

The directing was stellar, the acting was superb and the ambience was intoxicating.

The original is my favorite film, and I expected a dud.

Unlike The Star Wars movies, this movie stands on its own and though it departs from the original in a lot of ways, its very much what one would expect Blade Runner fast forwarded 30 years would be.

If you get the chance the supporting short films on YouTube fill in some of the events and backstory of "The Blackout" and act as Easter eggs.

I give this film 11/10.

I fully expected to hate it because of Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto. Negative. They both put out solid performances.

One of the three Short Films:

[Outlander Systems]

Relevant:

[austinN4]

I own the original DVD and am looking forward to this.

[rero360]

I'm currently MOBing to go to Qatar, I'm told there is a movie theater on the base, hopefully this will be showing when we get there, I wanted to see it in IMAX but regular screen will do

[Whiskey_Bravo]

Have tickets to see it tomorrow. Looking forward to it.